Windows 7: X-fi Xtremegamer sound issue

Tzacks · 10 Aug 2009

Myself, and an acquaintance of mine both upgraded from xp 32 -> Win 7 64.

We each purchased a soundblaster X-fi xtremegamer sound card (PCI) quite some time ago (PC is roughly 2 years old).

Upon upgrading to win 7, the sound card fails to recognize. 'Drivermax' verifies that windows 7 is unable to recognize the device, and hence i cannot get any sound currently.

Is this a known issue?

if so how do i go about resolving it.

Sincerely,
Mark

Sassa · 10 Aug 2009

Hi Mark, welcome to the forum.
Go here: http://support.creative.com/download...ype=-1#type_-1
and download v2.18.0013 Release date : 26 Jun 09.
I have Extreme Audio and it worked for me.
You can download and Console launcher, ALchemy, etc...
They worked for me too.

Night Hawk · 10 Aug 2009

Welcome to the Se7enforums! Tzack

The first thing to as far as the XtremeGamer card is dump the DriverMax for getting sound working on the 64bit 7. By going through the OS selector I can save you a few more steps since the application portion for the 64bit 7 is still the same for the 64bit Vista seen at Creative Worldwide Support

If you select Windows 7 64bit using the selector you'll only run across the drivers without the applications seen at Creative Worldwide Support

But lose the DriverMax for this. The Creative installers are quite reliable once you download the correct versions for each.

mickey megabyte · 10 Aug 2009

i had no problems at all with the aforementioned 'windows 7 64bit' 2.18.0013 driver from creative.

this is an example of one of many problems that can be experienced performing an upgrade rather than a clean install.

uninstall whatever you can see in device manager, and get rid of your xp and drivermax drivers.

once you've rebooted, install the new windows 7 drivers...good luck!

Sassa · 10 Aug 2009

Quote:

If you select Windows 7 64bit using the selector you'll only run across the drivers without the applications seen at

I installed applications from Vista page and they work perfectly...

Sassa · 10 Aug 2009

Quote: Originally Posted by mickey megabyte

i had no problems at all with the aforementioned 'windows 7 64bit' 2.18.0013 driver from creative.

this is an example of one of many problems that can be experienced performing an upgrade rather than a clean install.

uninstall whatever you can see in device manager, and get rid of your xp and drivermax drivers.

once you've rebooted, install the new windows 7 drivers...good luck!

It seems that Win 7 doesn't have driver support for some Creative cards...
I preformed clean install and I didn't have soundcard recognized (I have X-Fi Extreme Audio), but when my friend preformed clean install (he have Audigy SE), Win 7 recognized his soundcard.

holo88 · 10 Aug 2009

same deal here. i have the driver (all my drivers) on a usb stick, so after one of the thousands of install i've done, i always have em on hand.

Sassa · 10 Aug 2009

Quote: Originally Posted by holo88

same deal here. i have the driver (all my drivers) on a usb stick, so after one of the thousands of install i've done, i always have em on hand.

Me too..

Night Hawk · 11 Aug 2009

Quote: Originally Posted by Sassa

I installed applications from Vista page and they work perfectly...

The compatibilty between Vista and 7 is tight there where you shouldn't have any problems with most things to start with. There are always a few exceptions however but not many.

When Vista first came out Creative lacked a Vista version of the application even for the 32bit Windows at that time while still having device drivers available. The large advantage now seen with 7 is actually being able to use the previous version drivers and softwares for things like this!

At other support sites you are starting to see Vista/7 labels on updates there.

Captain Zero · 11 Aug 2009

Try this. It's a pack I put together for this very issue. Once installed, it never needs to be updated since it adds all the features the card(s) can support.

Cheers.

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